Lehtineniana is a genus of South Pacific cribellate orb-weavers first described by Danniella Sherwood in 2022. It is named in honor of Pekka T. Lehtinen. It was formerly known as Tangaroa, and renamed after this was found to be a junior homonym of the rhabdocoel flatworm genus Tangaroa, prompting its replacement.[2]
Species
As of July 2022 it contains five species:[1]
- Lehtineniana beattyi (Opell, 1983) — Caroline Is.
- Lehtineniana dissimilis (Berland, 1924) — Vanuatu, New Caledonia
- Lehtineniana pukapukan (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.
- Lehtineniana tahitiensis (Berland, 1934) — French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is., Austral Is.)
- Lehtineniana vaka (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Lehtineniana Sherwood, 2022". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ Sherwood, Danniella (2022). "Replacement names for Leroya Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 (Araneidae: Thomisidae) and Tangaroa Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae: Uloboridae)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 40: 203–204.
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